Top 29 Quotes About Tapeworm
#2. Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody. His appetite was appalling, and he told me so many times to stop pestering him I consulted Atticus: "Reckon he's got tapeworm" Atticus said no, Jem was growing. I must be patient with him and disturb him as little as possible.
Harper Lee
#3. I admire the female sex. The life makers. It must be amazing to have a body that can carry an entire creature inside. (I mean, other than a tapeworm, which I've had. That doesn't count as another life, really. That's a parasite and should never have been there in the first place.)
Garth Stein
#4. If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm.
David Sedaris
#5. I've never been to a hotel with a rotating restaurant on top, but one time I took my girlfriend to a merry-go-round, and I gave her a burrito.
Mitch Hedberg
#6. Our Government is investing in stronger communities by supporting the important work of charities by reducing their administrative burden, encouraging charitable giving and allowing charities to use modern electronic tools.
Kevin Sorenson
#7. And if strict monogamy is the height of all virtue, then the palm must go to the tapeworm, which has a complete set of male and female sexual organs in each of its 50-200 proglottides, or sections, and spends its whole life copulating in all its sections with itself.
Friedrich Engels
#8. Good God, Clarence! You look like a bereaved tapeworm.
P.G. Wodehouse
#9. I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very upsetting. But it's inherent in the process of trying to make sense of one's life, which is what I think is perhaps at the bottom of writing at all.
Anne Roiphe
#10. Being in love is one of the greatest feelings in the world. You risk your heart, but it has to be better than going through life without it at all.
Brooke Cumberland
#11. It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.
E. M. Forster
#12. From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
Edward Abbey
#13. Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.
James Ussher
#14. In her world, men loved women as the fox loves the hare. And women loved men as the tapeworm loves the gut.
Pat Barker Regeneration
#15. Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers
Ziggy Marley
#16. Sure, I'd like to lose some weight, but a tapeworm is the last way I'd like to do it, except becoming a prisoner of war.
Laurie Notaro
#17. There was just too much evidence, from too many witnesses, pointing too many fingers at Ryan and his colleague for either defense team to have been able to portray it as a coincidence or a witch hunt or anything short of widespread corruption. And that's why we see this verdict.
Andrew Cohen
#18. Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.
Rayne Hall
#19. But imagine you're a tapeworm, and then suddenly you're Goethe. It's like that.
John Scalzi
#21. That's what life is, it's fucking trying. You don't get a medal for it. It's expected, as a member of the human race, that you try.
Kim Holden
#22. A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.
Manny Farber
#23. There are many forms of tapeworm, three of which can readily infect the brain. From a public health perspective, there's one in particular to watch out for. "It's mainly the pork tapeworm that's the main brain one," says Helena Helmby from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
CNN
#24. The woman set Sig's chocolate orgy out in front of her and deposited my steak on the table.
"Y'all must work out," the waitress observed a little sourly. She apparently did not.
"I'm going to throw this up later," Sig said expressionlessly.
"I have a tapeworm," I said cheerfully.
Elliott James
#25. You've never heard of the tapeworm diet?
Nick Cutter
#26. You have options when it comes to abortion now. It's not like 1955 when you just had to kick her down a staircase and hope for the best ... you feed her a tapeworm and hope it takes a left at the Y.
Doug Stanhope
#27. One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.
Cleo Moore
#29. There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
Bill Nye
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